Portablity using structures and malloc - Help

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Fri Jul 19 17:39:05 AEST 1985


The answer is simple: malloc has been written by someone who knows
the hardware alignment constraints of the machine, and it returns
a pointer that is aligned for *any* use.

(If malloc has been written by someone who does NOT know the hardware
alignment constraints, complain.)
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